Alright well, I'm doing part two of the short series called the stable family and obviously that's a play on words
but the Lord Jesus Christ was born to
Mary and Joseph with was a stepdad I preached on Thursday night the stable family and I went through
the story of Joseph and and he kind of
Drifts off and and we don't really see much of them after the first few chapters of the book of Luke
and in the first couple chapters of Matthew
but I
Proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that Joseph was a great man of God
And tonight we're gonna cover Mary in the stable family
So this is obviously a message for the family. It's a message for moms and for ladies
But it's also these verses can be applied to men too. And so again don't think that this is just only for the ladies
I'm definitely gonna be focusing on the ladies tonight and
and so but hopefully you get a blessing out of this ladies and also men you can apply a lot of this to yourself and
it's
Definitely Mary was a great woman of God also and the Lord picked her to be
the virgin that would bring forth
Jesus Christ and
and again, I mentioned this in my sermon earlier that
Mary was not the mother of God because God doesn't have a mother
All right, and hopefully that makes sense to you even though Jesus was God manifest in the flesh
He was still a human being he was born as a human being and God became man and
He picked Mary for that prophecy and there's a reason why he picked her because she was a great woman
Mary was blessed Mary was strong and she was godly and
She was a woman that had to see her son mocked
beaten
tortured spit on nailed to a cross and
She is
Known to a lot of people as you know, obviously just a great woman of God. She wasn't sinless
Like the Roman Catholics want to teach she did have other children. She was not a perpetual virgin
We're not Catholic. We're Baptist. We don't believe that junk
But yet she still was a great woman of God and
God picked her because she was a great woman of God
so there's much we can learn about this type of Christian mother and just a Christian lady in general and
This is how and she she can be a great example to us of how to raise your children and how to be a good wife
so
Number one tonight Mary was a woman of
Profound faith number one tonight Mary was a woman of
Profound faith and we're gonna be dealing mostly in Luke chapter 1. Sorry CJ about the 80 verses
I didn't realize that at first but and we're gonna go into Luke chapter 2 and some other stuff
So I gave him a present the other night and then I took it back from
so
Anyway, let's look at verse number 26. Mary was a profound a woman of profound faith verse 26 in Luke chapter 1 says
and in the sixth month
The angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin espoused
To a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David and the Virgin's name was Mary
And the angel came in unto her and said hail thou art highly favored. The Lord is with thee blessed art thou
Among women so God had a pretty high, you know regard for her. He thought she was a great woman
She's highly favored for sure and she was blessed among women
Why because she was the one that was chosen to bring forth the Christ the Son of Living God and verse 29 says and when?
She saw him. She was troubled at his scene
And cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be and the angel said unto her fear
Not Mary for thou hast found favor with God and behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son
And shall call his name Jesus
He shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest and the Lord shall give
Unto him the throne of his father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom
There shall be no end then Mary said unto the angel. How shall this be?
Seeing I know not a man
And the angel answered and said unto her the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee
Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God
So she does ask a question here and I think that it's a legit question. She didn't quite understand
What was gonna happen here how this could be because she's not, you know, because she was a virgin
And verse 36 says and behold thy cousin Elizabeth
She hath also conceived a son in her old age and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren for with God
Nothing shall be impossible. Of course. We know that that was John the Baptist that she was
with child with and
The babe leaped in her in her womb and there were cousins
So Jesus and John the Baptist were cousins. And anyway, it says and Mary said behold the handmaid of the Lord
Be it unto me according to thy word and the angel departed from her
So after hearing all these things, you know, I I think she was a woman of profound faith because
She heard all these things and what she believed it. She believed what the angel was telling her and
She believed everything that that she that the angel had said a Gabriel and Mary said behold the handmaid of the Lord
What does that mean? Well, I believe Mary was saved already before the angel came to her and
As evidence in her response where she said behold the handmaid of the Lord
Not the mother of God by the way
And so what does the handmaid of the Lord mean?
Well, just a handmaid means a female servant someone that would work for somebody else
And so she said I'm gonna be working for God. That's basically what she's saying here, right?
Mary had the faith to believe what the angel told her to do and what did she say? I'm yours. I'm your servant Lord
I'm your handmade Lord and
I I think that unfortunately a lot of times
There's people that wouldn't say that
There's people out there that are saved that they're like, you know what? I know I'm saved, but I'm just gonna go do my own thing
But Mary had faith and that faith caused her to have some action, you know
I'm not saying you have to have action to be saved. That's not what I'm saying at all
I'm just saying that her faith drove her to say, you know what? I'm the handmaid of the Lord
I'm gonna do whatever it is that you say that you want me to do and so I think that
You know if we get into that ladies if you get into that attitude where you're like, well, you know, I've done enough
You know, I I'm tired of being this servant. I already served my husband already served my kids
You know what God wants you to be his servant also
And so just because you have that you feel like you're serving all the time. Look. Hey, I feel like I'm serving all the time, too
right, so
But Mary was a woman of profound faith and I think that that's evidence in the way and obviously
Everything that she said you could I mean we read through the whole chapter and she said a lot of great things in there
Which I don't have time to cover but I believe that Mary was saved
I believe that she was a woman of faith and that her attitude was hey
I'm gonna be a servant of the Lord and that's what we all should be like we should all be servants of the Lord and
Ladies, I think that that's a great calling to be the servant of the Lord and hey just because men
Like how do the preaching and we are mainly the ones in leadership doesn't mean that God doesn't want you working for him, too
It's just not the same capacity. It's not the same thing. Say women can preach to
All a lot of women preaching my church and whenever she wants but not at the pulpit
I'm talking about preaching the gospel to people that come to visit when we go knock on doors
hey, you can preach just make sure you're preaching what the Bible says and
You're allowed to preach and and things like that just not in the pulpit. Okay, so
Women can do lots of different things for God and Mary was she just said hey, yeah, go ahead
Give me this baby, you know, that's that's a pretty I think that's a pretty big sacrifice, you know
I think that's something that she did that what that showed her faith number two. Mary was a woman of prevailing obedience
Mary was a woman of prevailing obedience
Look again at verse number 38 says Mary
And Mary said behold the hand of the Lord be it unto me according to thy word
So not only was she have a servant's heart to do the things that God asked her to do
But she said be it unto me according to thy word
So she was a woman of prevailing obedience. Hey God said this is what I'm gonna do and she was like, alright go ahead
be it according to your word and
the angel departed from her
So Mary was surprised at the situation she was in but after receiving all the instructions
She accepted it and just said hey, let it happen
I'm good with that
And unfortunately, that's not the way people always are is it that's not the way all ladies respond
That's not the way all
Servants of God respond, right? They don't always say hey be it according to thy word
A lot of times there's things in God's Word that we don't we look at and we're like, oh man, I don't know
That's hard
there's things that say like
Your hand shall be the first upon the person that's a false prophet
Even if your husband or wife or your kids or anything
You know in the millennium if they blaspheme God like if some family blasphemes God and it's their wife
They're gonna be thrust through with a dart. I mean, those are hard sayings
And or your your kid if your kids are false prophet and they get what are they supposed to happen to them
They're supposed to get stoned to death. Okay, how many people would be like, all right
Well be it according to thy word Lord
not a lot of people and
So we're good at following the basic things that God tells us to do
But when it's something hard people like well, I don't know about that
You like carrying a baby that's not yours for nine months
You
Know that's that was a hard thing to ask for but she said, you know what be it according to my word
She was married at this point
And she probably knew that Joseph was gonna think something was weird going on. I would think that
Anybody in their right mind would think that?
But God came to Joseph also and told him what was going on and he believed and didn't question anything either
So obviously God chose the right two people to raise the Lord Jesus Christ and Mary was a good a good lady
She was she was obedient to God's Word and she had prevailing obedience
So what's the application to us? Well
It'd be nice to have women in 2019. They would say about the Bible be it unto me according to thy word
Be it unto me
You know, like there's some hard sayings in the Bible for women and there are things that they don't like to obey
It's like it's almost like God just you know, there's specific things that he just said to them
but Satan wants to turn you aside from those things and
One of those things is being subject unto your own husbands
Say a lot of women want to say, you know what? I just want a career. I don't want to raise my kids
I don't want to take care of the kids. I don't want to guide the home and
So they buck against their husband and say hey, I'm gonna go off back to nursing school and I'm gonna have it myself a career
What are you gonna do about it? You're not supposed to divorce me. So blah blah blah
And hopefully nobody in that in this church would have that attitude but the Bible says in Ephesians 5 24
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything
Does it say some things or does it say everything?
Does it say some things or everything? It says everything
And a lot of even Christian women have a problem with this. Well, it's 50-50. No, it's not
Where does the Bible say that?
Show me the verse it shall be 50-50. It doesn't say that
It said what does it say? It says that you're supposed to that your wives are supposed to be subject unto their own husbands
Now I know there's some clowns that would say well every man is is every woman's boss, that's ridiculous
Okay over and over again in the Bible. It says that you're supposed to be subject to your own husbands
So tell me this when you say hey, I just want to go have my own career
I just want to go do my own thing. I want to make my own money. It's gonna be 50-50
You're gonna do half the dishes. You're gonna do half the laundry. You're gonna do this you're gonna do that and you're a Christian woman
That's wicked
And God said to be said it says therefore as the church is subject to Christ
So let the wives be subject to their own husbands in everything
So the church is supposed to be something we're supposed to be subject to Christ. We're supposed to obey Christ
We're supposed to be under his
subjection
So that means and Christ is saying in the same way that wives are supposed to be to their husbands
And what do we call what do we call Jesus we call him the Lord
so
It's not that big of a deal to call your husband. I mean, I'm not saying you have to call your husband's Lord
Okay, I'm just saying I'm gonna get to that later. But
But people get upset about that
you know the first time I ever heard somebody knock Hiles Anderson College is because
There was this guy that went to the church that we were going to and he made his wife call him Lord
So there's one thing to make your I mean but if he did is it wrong to for him to do that
It sounds weird to us
But hey, he's the husband. He's the man. He should if he that's what he if he wants to force his wife to call him Lord
That's his prerogative and we might think it's weird
But that's why they thought it was weird and when I heard that I was like I kind of sounds weird
but
You know, there's women in the Bible called their husband's Lord and Sarah was one of them and she was a great woman of faith
And so, you know what what I see today is women not wanting to obey their husbands and they and and whatever
You know when it comes to these hard sayings in the Bible that they don't like like hey, you're supposed to grow your hair long
You know, I would flip out of Sherry cut her hair off. I would she knows it too
There'd be some smoke in the city
There would be worlds colliding
Why and I've always felt that way. It wasn't just like when I was saved. I like her hair long the whole time. I've known her
but
You know
Women will not obey that verse in 1st Corinthians 11 where it says that you're supposed to have long hair
That's their glory unto them. And then when you show it to them in the Bible and it's like well, I just like the bobcat
What's that lady the soccer lady with a pastor McMurtry always talks about the Karen the Karen cut, you know what I'm talking about
Well, my hair just looks good short. Well, that's not what the Bible says though
The Bible says that your hair is your glory and if you cut that off you're cutting off your glory
You might as well just shave your head bald. That's what God says
So
Why would we you know?
What you know Mary was a woman that was subject and she was a woman of prevailing obedience
She was a woman of faith and you know what? I bet you she didn't chop her hair off when she got pregnant
I bet you know, the thing is is that she actually
Carried another person's child. It was God's child. You know, it was a great privilege
But you know, what would the people in modern day 2019 think of that?
You know what they call it. They call God that like a rapist because of that
But Mary said be it unto me
according to thy word
So, how is that being a rapist?
God said hey, this is what it's gonna be and she's like, okay. I'm fine with it
so
That's a ridiculous thing for people to say and so we also have today women playing the horror instead of doing God's will
women playing the horror young women playing the whore and
Wanting to leave their parents house and go off to their boyfriend who's the this dreamy guy
Listen, you're supposed to stay with your parents until you get married. That's what the Bible teaches
Okay, and people are like, well, that's so that's that's outdated. No, it's not
It's not outdated. Look this book is timeless
And you're not supposed to be at what happened to Dinah
She wanted to spy out the land and see the daughters of the land right and what ended up happened to her she ended up getting
Taken aside and she fornicated with some man and then her brothers ended up killing every single one of them because you know
They freaked out back then. It was a big deal to be a fornicator and
You know, they overreacted big-time for sure
But still they were upset because what it was a great sin to do that sin
First Timothy 5 14 you can turn over there real quickly first Timothy 5 14 the Bible says
I'm sorry. This isn't much of a Christmas message, but I preached that one earlier today first Timothy 5 14
I will therefore that the younger women marry
The younger women not go off and live your dream and go to college and waste your money on college
You know, I just so weird to me when Christian women like I'm I gotta finish college
And it's like why
Why
So you can fulfill some great dream that your parents had for you
So, you know, it's just it's weird to me because you know
The Bible says I will therefore that a younger woman women marry
Bear children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary to speak
Reproachfully, that's the will of God and you're like, well, that's not the will for every woman. Really? That's what it says
I therefore that the younger women marry their children. You're like, well, I don't want to do that. Well, then you're a feminist
You're you're disobeying what God's plan for your life is what does he want he wants you to have a godly seed
He wants your family you he wants you to have a family of saved people and then that generation will reach the next generation
and so on and so forth
Look, there's not a lot of people doing it anymore
A lot of people have flipped the gender roles have flipped so crazily that people don't even know what gender they are anymore supposedly
It's called genderfluid you ever heard of that?
Stupidest thing I've ever heard of
Today I'm a guy tomorrow. I'm a girl and they look like Andrew Sluiter
It's disgusting it really is
This
says for some are
Already turned aside after Satan. So what if you don't do what that verse is saying?
Then you've already turned aside after Satan. Isn't that what it's saying? Am I wrong about that?
See when younger women don't want to do that there's something wrong
And you know what parents are the reason why that crap happens in the first place because they don't put their children in
Subjection to them. They just let what their kids do whatever they want
Sometimes you got to grab your kid by the nap of the neck and and show them what's up
Show them that you know, I don't care how old they are. I'm sure you think I'm joking about that
Oh, I will spank my kids till the time they leave the house. I got one left. He's back there
I'm already spanking right now, but
I'm just kidding
He's a good kid though, but you know why he's a good kid because I put him he's under subjection
And this is he perfect sorry Josh always use it for sermon illustrations, but he's not perfect
He does things wrong sometimes, but you know what he gets in trouble for it, too
And so when people just let their kids go off and do whatever they want
You should never ever let your daughters go out by themselves with a bunch of men. That's super weird. I
Don't understand that mentality doesn't matter if you're 21 doesn't matter if you're 25
You got no business hanging around a bunch of single men and going off and doing these little trips with single men
Hey dads, you better get a hold of your daughter's heart because someone else is gonna take it from you
And so I love Christian weddings when the the father, you know gives the woman away, you know, obviously
Nikki's dad wasn't here to be able to do that. But brother Joe did it and
so
You know from you move from house your father's protection to the protection of your husband
There's no there's never a time when a woman shouldn't be under the protection of either their dad or their
husband
Okay, and you can get mad about that all you want and get all feminist on me and me. I don't care
It's the Bible says
There's another thing that women like to do for some weird reason I'm looking these are strongholds in women's lives for some reason
It's just because Satan works overtime to try to get women to turn aside after Satan
Women that wear men's clothes instead of garments that pertain to them
Deuteronomy chapter 22 verse 5. I'll be out of this in a second ladies
It's got one more thing
That's on the next thing Deuteronomy
22 verse 5
The Bible says the woman what why does it address the woman first?
Well, look at 2019. Why do you think it addresses at first?
Because you don't see I mean there are women that go around wearing dresses. They're called transvestites
They're disgusting but it's not a normal thing that you see every day. What's the normal thing you see every day women dressing like men?
Says the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man
Neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so our
Abomination unto the Lord thy God and people look bring up your culottes
Bring up your own there. It looks like a skirt. Why don't you just wear a skirt then?
Culottes are not a skirt
Why don't you wear a dress
You know when I was in Hawaii, I actually used the women's bathroom
I got to tell myself right now and I'll tell you why because they have a faggot culture over there of
Men wearing these little skirt things in Hawaii
And you know, I've been told don't say that to a Samoan. Well, I probably I might say it in a church service
I'm not gonna walk up and go you're wearing a dress
You know
Here's the thing though. It was dark outside and we were preaching. I was preaching at it
We were at a park and I walked up and I had my cell phone flashlight on and I looked at the pic
You know because their pictures are different, you know here it's pretty clear
It's a dress with a woman right and man and pants on a man and I came around the corner and it's like
It looked like like a little skirt like maybe this short
Well, I thought well, you know, they're just at least it's a dress right and then like a little flowery thing on their head
And I was like, okay. I didn't know what can't cane cane meant or whatever. I guess I should have known
But it meant men and so I skipped that one and just automatically thought
He's wearing a dress. He's wearing flowers in his hair. It's a girl
But it wasn't it was the guy
So I went to the and I went in there and I was I was going and I was like
Why isn't there any urinals in here? That's so weird
I'm glad nobody like caught me. I'm shocked. I mean there's other people that weren't with our church. So we're over
By the other beach part, but I was like they probably thought well that was really weird. I was identifying, you know, whatever
But
Hey, don't make it confusing for me. All right
Put some pants on
They're a little faggot picture of some, you know
Guy in a hula skirt or whatever
Look, that's I don't care what culture says the Bible says what it says and it says that you know
That man should not put on a woman's garment and a dress is a woman's garment
It's been that way for thousands of years and no woman's not supposed to put on pants, which is a man's garment
And again, it's not it's culottes. Whatever. That's just pants that look like a skirt. That's what it is
Quit trying to blur the lines. Why is why is that such a big deal to women?
You know every woman that wears a dress in here, you know, it feels more comfortable after you get used to it
It's got to feel more comfortable
But you know men have pants and
So that's what the Bible teaches. I'm not gonna go into the whole doctrine of it, but
look
Mary if God told Mary to put on a dress I guarantee she would put on a dress
And she probably always had a dress. We probably didn't even know what pants were for women
supposedly well look and
What was Moses and Aaron supposed to wear when they went and did their priestly duties?
They're supposed to wear. Yeah, they're supposed to wear linen britches, right? They're supposed to wear
Britches breeches whatever you want to call them
That means they have a leg on one side a leg on another so that would be our modern-day word for shorts
So if that's a man's garment then it's not a woman's garment does that make sense
Okay, number three tonight. Mary was a woman of personal worship
Personal worship, so let's look at verse 46 in Luke chapter 1 it says and Mary said okay
You can breathe easy now Mary said my soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior
See he proves that she was saved for he hath regarded the lowest state of his handmaiden for behold from henceforth all generations
Shall call me blessed for he that is mighty hath done to me great things and holy is his name
And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation
He has showed strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud and the imagination of their hearts
He has put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree
He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he has sent away or empty away
He hath hoping
His servant Israel in remembrance of his mercy
He as he spake to our fathers to Abraham and to his seed forever
so this is a moment where Mary's just like personally worshiping the Lord and blessing his name and talking about the
Great blessings in her life
And that's kind of what we do when we pray when we're thankful and prayer and things like that
And so Mary had a personal moment here where she was worshiping the Lord and so she was a woman of personal worship
And I doubt that this was her first time doing it
I don't think that she just spontaneously done at this one time and that was it
I think Mary was a probably a woman of prayer. I think she was a spiritual lady and she
Had her own time of personal worship with God
How do we apply that to us? How do we apply that today? Well?
Do you have a time when you worship the Lord?
Ladies, are you so busy that you've just?
Spaced off all of your personal worship time, you know, you got the new babies you got seven babies
You got seven children
You got all this stuff to do you got cooking and cleaning and taking care of the home
Like you're supposed to be doing that's great
But hey, have you forgot about your time?
You're supposed to worship the Lord have you forgot about your personal time that you're supposed to be spiritual with God
Because it gets it gets easy to be so busy that you forget to do things and at the end of the day
I
Haven't read my Bible
At the end of the day. I haven't prayed one time to God at the end of the day
I haven't sung one song to him. I haven't done anything that's spiritual at any level
But you know because the thing is you can do all the things that God commands you to do in the Bible
But if you're not spiritual with that then you're just like the world
You know and it's easy to get out of you know you get there you we get busy look. It's been a busy week
And I've had a busy weekend
But you know I still have to spend time with God in prayer. I still have to spend time in this book
That's been a lot of hours in this book this weekend because I it takes a lot of stuff to write a sermon
It takes a long time. I can't just
Regurgitate something I found off YouTube or copy some other pastors sermon on there
So I have to write my you know there's a lot of pastors that just get theirs off the internet
Sword of the Lord copy and paste I'm preaching it like you know Bob Gray did or I'm preaching it like Jack house
And a lot of people don't even know the difference
All right there was a pastor that we went to his church and Ryan checked
he googled
the the sermon and
It was from it came up as a hit from the sword of the Lord
He copied the whole sermon from the sword of the Lord website
So anyway can't be doing that but
Ladies do you have a
Time of day that you worship the Lord is there time that you spend with God and men, too
Hey, we can get busy
We can you know you're working overtime. You're working hard. You know find some time to get your spiritual time in
I'm not saying get on your knees for six hours a days and pray like what's that guy's name Justin like Tom Williams
The old man of the faith or whatever six hours on it. You'd be dead
That's ridiculous. I don't believe that for a second
But the Bible says in Ephesians 5 18 be not drugged with wine
Wearing his excess, but be filled with the Spirit speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord you want to get spiritual
Sing songs of God sing the psalm book sing sing hymns
Sing get those hymns in your heart, and that's how you're gonna get filled with the Spirit
Hey, the Bible says in Joshua 1 8 the this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth
But thou shalt meditate therein day and night
That thou mayest observe to do according to all that's written therein for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous
And then thou shalt have good success
See if you don't if if you like this is day and night doesn't that
So there should be a time in the day that you read the Bible
There should be a time in the night you read the Bible look and this is shotgun
I know this is geared toward lady, but this is a shotgun blast for everybody
Hey, don't act common act spiritual, and you've never read your Bible cover to cover one time
You should as a man leading your home. You should have already read the Bible by now most of you
You got to get it done
because
Every word is important every word in this whole, but it's a big book. It takes a long time to read the whole thing and
The older you get the more responsibilities you get the more children you get the less time you have to read
So a lot of these young guys. They'll read through it like really fast and many different times
but
When you get more responsibility you get less time to do things you get less time to go soul winning you get less time
So and then speaking of soul winning in Acts chapter 5 verse 42
It says and daily in the temple and in every house. They cease not to teach and praise Jesus Christ ladies
Have you quit soul winning?
Has anybody in here quit soul winning completely? I really hope not
You know we got to be out there. We got to be you know it says daily in the temple. They were in every house
Hey weekly is good
Weekly is good
But it says in every house they cease not cease not to teach and preach Jesus Christ
Look, I know ladies. You know you have the baby, and you got the time you got to heal up and rest
I get that but you got to get back out there
you can't just keep putting it off and
You got to be soul winning read your Bible and praying also
so
look if you're gonna be a spiritual woman of God you got to do these things and
Not just because
You know the Bible commands it that should be a reason, but it's also do you love God?
Have you lost your love for God?
Has Satan turned you aside? I hope not
Because Satan can't turn us aside. He can't possess us his Devils can't possess us
but you know what he can do he can get us focused on other stuff and
Then you start to fall away
If that happens the next thing you know you're like oh, I'm backslidden. How did this happen?
Because you stopped doing these major components in the Bible that were commanded to do turn to Matthew chapter 6
Matthew chapter number 6
Matthew 6 6
Obviously this is talking about the Lord's Prayer, and how we're supposed to pray they asked Jesus
How do we praise he's giving them an example here?
I'm not gonna read the whole thing
I'm just gonna go to verse 6 it says
But thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door
Pray to thy father which is in secret and thy father which seeth thee in secret shall reward thee
openly
So God wants us to have a time where we have a private time with him to pray
So I don't know if you have a closet that's fit for doing that. I'll tell you what it's not. It's not your jacket
It's not a prayer shawl. I don't know where they get that from
But you're not in secret if you just pull something over the top of your head people could still see you
It's not hide-and-seek pray
Alright, that's dumb. I don't know where I mean people like when people I've seen that preach at Baptist churches before and they're like
And then you you go into your prayer closet, and they like shut the door on their shawl or whatever. That's like I see you
That's not in secret
Anyway skip down to verse 11
It says give us this day our daily bread
So what does this tell what does this verse jump out and tell you right there?
Give us this day our daily bread that means you haven't had it yet
So before you start your day
That's when you would ask for your daily bread. Hey
Give us this day our daily bread Lord. We don't know what's gonna happen in a day lots of things can happen
And hey you can go
We could lose our lives at any time
We're not guaranteed tomorrow. We're not guaranteed tonight
You know we could go any minute the Lord can't come back any money, but we can go to him any minute
That's the truth of the matter
Ladies are you taking the time to have a personal worship with God like Mary did?
Can you remember the last time you got on your knees and prayed?
When's the last time you went soul winning or we're happy to go soul winning. What's the last time?
That you were you know I can't wait to go soul winning
Verses oh, man. I gotta go soul winning
Hey, you should you still should go for duty, but why don't you be happy about it?
We should be happy that we get to serve the Lord, right
How's your Bible reading going? Are you still stuck in Genesis chapter 3?
From the beginning of after you know from the beginning of the year. I hope not
Are you one of those people just like?
I'm just gonna get one thing today, and then you just like open up your Bible like Jesus saith unto him
You never did you never read the scriptures the son which the builders rejected the same has become the head of the corner
And this is the Lord's doing it's marvelous to our eyes all right. I got my spiritual reading for the day
That's not just how we're supposed to read the Bible
Are you being filled with the Holy Spirit are you actually seeing with melody in your hearts the Lord and hey even if it's not at
home
What about here? Are you just falling along?
You know with nothing in you hey, so we're supposed to sing out to the Lord
You know we all get our
Where we're thinking about something else, and we kind of think well. This is the buffer time before the preaching
It's not the way it's supposed to be though. We're supposed to sing
With melody in our hearts to who not to each other to the Lord
And that's how we're filled with the Holy Spirit
Hey, you want to be filled with the Spirit during the preaching service why don't you follow along and and and and sing with all?
Your heart to the Lord and hey
Maybe he'll open up your wicked heart and let you have the Holy Spirit filled within you so that when you hear the preacher
You're like hey. I'm dialed into the preaching tonight. Hey. This is for me. You know so-and-so should have heard that sermon
Hey, it's for you
Number four tonight Mary was a woman of private reflection number four tonight. Mary was a woman of private reflection
Let's look at Luke chapter 2
Don't be mad ladies if you were weren't here on Thursday. I got on the guys too didn't I I
Always feel like I have to say that for some reason, but I really don't but
It's just to make you feel better anyway Luke chapter 2 verse 15 says and it came to pass as the angels were gone away from
Them into heaven the shepherds said one to another let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing
Which has come to pass which the Lord hath made known?
unto us
Talking about the shepherds in the field the day that the Lord Jesus was born it says and they came with haste and found Mary
And Joseph and the babe lying in a manger
When I read this last night, I was like they were all laying in it must have been a big manger
You know what a manger is it's a it's a big trough for feeding animals
So they must I don't know cleared up was you always think you always see the straw like in the in the pictures or whatever
But there probably was some straw in there like they didn't have sleep numbers back then it was
They had to have the hay, but anyway
So
It says they're lying in the manger and verse 17 and when they had seen it
They made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child
And all they that heard it wondered at the things which were told them by the shepherds
But check this out. It says in verse 19
but Mary kept all these things and
Pondered them in her heart
So Mary didn't blurt out
Well, I can't believe this is happening or you know anything like that she pondered she privately pondered these things in her heart
Now look at verse 47
Says and all that heard
him were astonished at his understanding and answers is talking about when Jesus, you know went back to
He's to actually he stayed in Jerusalem. He never left and like went back
He stayed there. Okay, and it says and when they saw him they were amazed and his mother
Said unto him son why I saw thus dealt with us the old thy father and I have sought these sorrowing
He said unto them
How is it that you sought me wish to not that I must be about my father's business and they understood not the same
Which he spake unto them and he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject unto them
But his mother kept all these things where in her heart privately
So she thought about the things and mold over the things that Jesus was saying to her and she kept them in her heart and
Jesus increased in wisdom and stature in favor of
God with God and man
Now back up and look at verse number 33 in Luke chapter 2
See Mary was a woman that privately mold over the things that she was told she she didn't just she wasn't like a loud obnoxious
Woman she kept those things in her heart. She pondered those things in her heart now
Look at verse 33 says and Joseph and his mother marveled at those things which were spoken of him
So she Joseph and his mother and says in Simeon blessed them and said unto
Mary his mother so here he's directly speaking to Mary
This is Simeon
behold this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel and
For a sign which shall be spoken against
Yea a sword
Shall pierce through thy own soul also that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed
So she's telling he's telling her the prophecy that that basically hey it swords gonna pierce through your heart
Also because your son is gonna die
That's what I think he's saying to her. I think that he's saying hey your heart's gonna be broken
But
It said and then it says hey, and then Mary said no it doesn't say that does it what's the next verse say
Does it say and Mary no she didn't say anything did she?
Why does what does Mary say back?
She doesn't say anything you know because she probably was pondering those things in her heart also
Right so Mary you have these three different times when she's told specific things
And she doesn't just blurt out and get loud and you know hey, I got a question about this
She's just quiet and keeps those things in her heart
And you know why I believe that God picked Mary because she was a meek and quiet woman. Yeah, I
see Mary's private reflection as a great quality in her and
Ladies it might benefit you to just privately reflect on things in your own life also
Instead of you know scattering abroad everything that you that happens to you having to
Comment on everything having to be the loudmouth in the room
And look I'm not saying don't talk okay like
No, I'm not saying that
I'm just saying that overs on certain things. Maybe you should just be quiet sometimes
Maybe we all need to be quiet sometimes
Maybe we all need to just shut our mouths sometimes instead of blurting out the first thing that comes to our brain
Turn to 1st Timothy chapter 3 verse 1
1st Timothy or excuse me 1st Peter 3 verse 1 is that what I said 1st Peter 3 1
It says likewise you wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word
They also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives
It's talking about hey
You know if if you have a husband basically that won't that's not saved that hey you can obey
And obey your husband and that they might be won over by the lifestyle that you live
Lifestyle evangelism, but it doesn't say they're gonna get saved by that
They said they're gonna be won over by that and then you can give them the gospel
Look there's a lot of ladies and hey Christ divides homes
Sometimes a woman gets saved and she's already married and she's with a man. That's an unbeliever, and he won't get saved
But you know what you don't do you don't just sit there and just beat him down, and you know hey
He's not saved and so how are you gonna win him over well by being in subjection to your husband and notice again
It says your own husband
It's so funny to me that
Women just want to run out and work in the workforce
You know and they're willing to go obey somebody else's husband
They're willing to obey some other man
But they won't obey their man that they have at home
And they'll put on their pants and go do their service job or whatever it is that they're doing
But you won't obey Christ you won't obey your husband you just want to go and do whatever you want
That's turning aside after Satan
Anyway, let me move on verse 2 and while they behold your chaste
conversation coupled with fear
So that again that word
Conversation means your lifestyle the way you live your life. Are you obeying your husband? Are you in subject?
Subjection to him it says who's adorning
Let it not be the outward adorning of plating the hair and of wearing gold or putting on of apparel
but let it be
The hidden man of the heart and that which is not corruptible
Even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God a great
Christ what is the Bible saying right here?
It's saying hey
Having a meek and quiet spirit is a great price to God and that and and really what that tells me is that that's what?
God wants Christian ladies to be like
And so instead of the outward appearance in the plating of gold and being loud and stubborn and
Being just a big mouth. You're always talking over the top of your husband
You're the one that has to jump in and give your theological perspective when men are talking
Right, it's it's annoying
And it really shouldn't be done. It's kind of disrespectful
I'm not saying ladies can't give their opinion
I'm not saying that but to jump over the top of your husband say no, this is what I believe
Shut up
Keep your mouth shut and let your husband talk
Because that's not being meek and quiet is it being meek and quiet is being meek and quiet. All right, so
But again, I'm not saying don't talk I'm just saying there's times when it's time to just be quiet listen to your husband and
And be a good wife
Verse 5 for after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God
Adorn themselves being in subjection unto their own
Husbands there's that word that term again even as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him what?
What you call?
I'd say say it ladies, but I can't do that
Lord
Calling him Lord
Whose daughters you are as long as you do well and are not afraid with any amazement
Again I'm not saying call your husband Lord my wife calls me Lord
But I don't tell her she has to and she does it as an endearing term
But she doesn't go Lord
May I bring you dinner?
She goes hear me Lord something like that, you know
But look Sarah was a great woman of God
She had a meek and quiet spirit and you know who else had a meek and quiet spirit
Mary had a meek and quiet spirit she pondered the things in her heart, and hey, that's a good thing to do
Why do you think it shows that so many times in the Bible?
Because it's an example of a godly woman
That's why and we need some godly women today that are not loud and obnoxious
but meek and quiet
And look if you think I'm wrong about this show me the verse
Come up and show me the verse where it says God is pleased with big mouth women that promote their outward appearance show me
I'll wait
It's not there
You know why it's not there because that's not what God wants
And look the feminist in you is screaming right now. I understand that
But you need to knock that feminazi out and hey just be in subjection to God's Word
Be in subjection to your own husband have a meek and quiet spirit. Don't be the first one to talk
Don't be the first one to you know to blurt something out
But when I see obnoxious women just shut up. It's annoying
And look if that if that's your personality
I'm not saying don't have your personality. I'm saying just work on it. Can you work on it?
Can you work on not talking over the top of your husband?
Can you work on not trying to boss them around when it comes to the finances?
Looking up no
Hey look if your husband wants to control the finances you know what you should give it to him
And if he sucks at it, then you guys are gonna starve
but
The husband should have you know if he wants to now if the husband says hey
I want you to take care of the finances because I'm starving us to death by my bad money management
That's okay, too
But look learn to trust your husband God gave them to be the head of the home for a reason and
If they're not doing better, you know what you should do don't go call Pastor Anderson and say my husband's not doing this
Don't call me and and say hey my husband's not doing this
You know what you should do get on your knees and pray for them
And say hey God would you please help my husband to be a better husband?
You don't have to run them into the ground to everybody around you. I hate it when people just bash their husbands
I can't handle it. I would tell you I would say just stop
So
anyway, so
Mary
Had a meek and quiet spirit and she kept she pondered things in her heart
And I think that this is an important lesson for ladies
Hey, you know don't don't be that quiet or that loud obnoxious person be the quick the meek and quiet one
Number five tonight. This is our last point
Mary was a woman of painful
Experience Mary was a woman of painful experience. Let's look at Luke chapter 2 verse number 34
Luke chapter 2
Verse number 34
Bible says in verse 34 and Simeon blessed them and said unto Mary his mother behold this child
Is set for the fall and rising
Again of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be spoken against yea a sword shall pierce through thy
Own soul also
That the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed
Mary did you know?
Yes
She knew
She knew who he was she knew that Jesus was gonna end up dying Mary. Did you know yeah, she knew
Okay, the song is okay
But it's really not that biblical because she did know
Look at John chapter 9 or 19 excuse me John chapter 19
verse number 25
John chapter 19 verse 25 I read this scripture
Earlier today a lot of these are bleeding together, but
Making different points here, so John chapter 19 verse 25
Simeon told Mary that a sword would pierce through her own soul also
John chapter 19
Verse number 25 the Bible says now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister
married the wife of Cleophas
Mary Magdalene when Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciples standing by whom he loved which was John
He saith unto his mother woman behold thy son
Then saith he unto the disciple
Behold thy mother and from that hour that disciple took her
unto his own home
The last thing that Jesus did before he died was make sure his mom was taken care of
And that's a good thing to do hey we need to make sure we take care of our parents, too
But that's literally the last thing that Jesus did is make sure that his mom had a place to be
You know why because he loved her because she raised him because she loved him
And she was there when he died just like Simeon said that a
Sword would pierce through her side through her also through her heart
And it says in verse 28 after this Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished
That the scripture might be fulfilled
saith I thirst
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it on hyssop and put it in
his mouth
And when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar he said it is finished and he bowed his head and gave up the ghost
So how how awful would that be to have to watch your son?
Go through a death like that, and I didn't even read all the gruesome details
but she was there and
Had to witness all that stuff
How would you feel
How would that feel to you?
The
Son that she was chosen to bear who she swaddled and nursed and picked up
When he fell picked him up when he fell down and fed and taught and laughed with him and cared and died
Brutally for her she knew
she knew and she knew that pain and
Yet this great woman of God is still raised
And she still raised him without fear
Didn't she
The
Angel told her fear not
Earlier that's what she was told
What about you Christian ladies?
Our children are the next generation
Do you have the faith to raise your children as a Christian
Knowing it's possible that they're gonna go through something like this
But
You know what that's what we're called to do
We're supposed to reach the next generation and the and after Joshua died is the Bible says that there rose up a generation
That knew not God. I don't want our kids to be that generation
But it took toughness for Mary to raise Jesus the way she did and she loved him
There's no doubt about that and he loved her
As a matter of fact it was the last thing he did
Let's make sure she was taken care of
But what can you raise your kids knowing that they might pay the ultimate price in persecution
Can you raise your kids that way?
There's a reason why God picked Mary to be the mother of Jesus and we see the whole thing play out
and
She went to church. She's one of the people that was counted as the people that went to church
You know everybody else forsook Jesus and fled and that first church that that next church meeting was 120 people
And you know what she's named in that church meeting she loved him, and she carried on until the day
She died I'm sure and John was the one that took her into his home
There's a reason God picked Joseph to be the stepdad of Jesus
why because he was a great man of God Mary is a great woman of God and she knew sorrow and
So some of us hey you might be raising the next John the Baptist, and you don't even know it
You might be raising
You know some prophet some preacher the next missionary to so-and-so, and you know what they might grow up
And preach and then get killed for their faith, but you know what?
You can see in Mary the toughness that she had and the strength that she had to still raise her son and still beat the
cross when he died and
She was a faithful mother
And I'm thankful for the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm thankful for my salvation
I'm thankful for great women of God in the Bible to do great things for God
Women can do great things for God
And I pray that our church are the women here know that they can do that and look I'm I support you a hundred percent
Let's pray Lord. We thank you so much for a great day in church. I pray that you just
bless everybody as they go home and
pray that you would bless them with the Merry Christmas Lord to pray for the ladies at the the ladies and the men at the
Assisted living ministry I pray Lord that you would bless their hearts and help them be prepared for the message and the great fellowship
Lord
Prayed take us home safely. We pray for brother Ryan Holmes who's in the hospital right now
Let's pray that you'd help him to feel better in Jesus name we pray. Amen